The Christmas TV Thread 2012

Wonder if any of the red top papers will have their usual early TV guides in them tomorrow? Its usually the last Thursday before December isn't it?

Digiguide has updated with the very early provisional listings.

BBC One
Christmas Eve
06:00 - Breakfast
09:00 - David Suchet: In the Footsteps of st Pail
10:00 - The Nativity
11:00 - TBA
13:00 - BBC News
13:30 - TBA
18:00 - BBC News
18:30 - TBA
20:00 - EastEnders
20:30 - TBA
22:00 - BBC News
22:15 - TBA

Christmas Day
06:00 - Breakfast
10:00 - Christmas Day Live
11:00 - TBA
13:00 - BBC News
13:15 - TBA
13:30 - This is BBC One HD
13:45 - TBA
15:00 - The Queen
15:10 - TBA
17:30 - BBC News
17:45 - Doctor Who
18:30 - This is BBC One HD
19:00 - Strictly Come Dancing
19:45 - Call the Midwife
21:00 - EastEnders
22:00 - TBA

BBC TWO
Christmas Eve
06:00 - Cbeebies / CBBC
09:00 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
10:40 - Christmas Snow
11:25 - Flight of the Navigator
12:55 - TBA
14:40 - Olympia Highlights
15:40 - Nativity
17:20 - Dad's Army
19:15 - TBA
20:00 - TBA
21:00 - TBA
22:00 - TBA
22:30 - The Toys That Made Christmas

Christmas Day
06:00 -Cbeebies / CBBC
09:00 - Attenborough and the Giant Egg
10:00 - Natural World
11:00 - King's at Christmas
12:15 - TBA
13:45 - Singin' in the Rain
15:30 - TBA
17:00 - TBA
17:40 - Arena
18:40 onwards - TBA

ITV1
Christmas Eve
16:45 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
18:45 - ITV News
19:00 - Emmerdale
19:30 - Coronation Street
20:00 - TBA
20:30 - Coronation Street
21:00 - The Spice Girl Story: Viva Forever!
22:30 - ITV News
22:45 - Christmas Carols on ITV

Christmas Day
09:25 - Aladdin
11:15 - TBA
15:00 - HM the Queen
15:10 - ITV News
15:20 - Tangled
17:15 - You've Been Framed
18:00 - Emmerdale
19:00 - Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs
20:00 - Coronation Street
21:00 - Downton Abby
23:00 - ITV News

That's Nick Knowles sorted...

I'd put money on BBC1 Christmas Day 10pm being Mrs Brown's Boys (or 20 mins later after news)

I don't understand where GOLD seems to think the appetite for Christmas Specials on December 1st is - they do this every year; Christmas has really stopped being a 'special' time - it's now a twelfth or more of the year!

Probably the same audience who watch Christmas 24 in November.

They've not done the draft TV guides in the Sun or Mirror for a good few years now. I think they've stopped bothering as it's mostly "TBA" at this stage and what few programmes they DID list ended up being re-scheduled or in some cases not shown at all.

Interesting Christmas TOTP hasn't been confirmed yet.

The BBC press release HAS confirmed TOTP for Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.

What's "This is BBC One HD" doing there? The first one should be part of the surrounding TBAs, and the second is wiped out when you consider the mistakes. Doctor Who is the wrong runtime, it's at least an hour. I think Strictly should also be longer, and EastEnders and Call the Midwife are the wrong way around.

It's to do with how we build the HD channel listings, the regional opt-out slots sort of sit on top of the network schedule and it clearly hasn't been changed from a normal Tuesday yet. It's still very early still for the Week 52 listings so I wouldn't pay too much attention to what it says there until much closer to the publication date. I've spotted a few things on those listings above that have already changed.